Albert Lea, MN, USA
The object had no blinking lights and went in 3 different directions, but those turns were faster than what an airplane could achieve
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-02-05
- Where
- Albert Lea, MN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 43.648, -93.368 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-albert-lea-mn-2006-19a500
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Albert Lea, MN shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 59 reports came from Minnesota in 2006.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.